Urgency = Procrastination
Do you deal mostly with urgent tasks in your day-to-day work? Unless you are a fire fighter or paramedic most of your work should consist of well-planned, directed tasks. Tasks that should have been...
View ArticleVisceral Vegetarianism
I hate the very smell of shellfish. I am sure I would hate taste too, but I will never know because I just cannot get past that smell. The concept of eating shellfish, because of the the odour, induces...
View ArticleVisiting Las Vegas
Last week I was in Las Vegas for DevConnections and the launch of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. Normally you won’t catch me dead in Las Vegas along The Strip due to all of the tourists, the constant...
View ArticleCoffee and Chess and Hamburgers
I find myself this evening at a Starbucks in Van Nuys, drinking a coffee, watching dozens of people who are not drinking coffee, or any sort of drink actually, play very bad games of chess. There are...
View ArticleQuick Reality Check
How do I know the nonsense you are peddling isn’t real? There’s two simple tests that I can perform to find out. The National Geographic Monks in a Monastery Test Has National Geographic done an expose...
View ArticleYour Job Is Obsolete
The job that a lot of people who read my blog do, didn’t exist yesterday. I’m amazed when I think my job didn’t really exist thirty years ago (video game developer) and I’m working with people (social...
View Article22 Reasons Why You Are Awesome
You never settle for what you are given You’re morally strong You constantly explore and expand your horizons You never take the politically expedient path You have passion for what you love You’re...
View ArticleYou talk a lot
The problem I have with most people is that they talk too much but don’t say enough.
View ArticleDo 1,000 Things Badly
Do 1,000 related things badly, eventually, somewhere along the way, without knowing it, you’ll be doing all of them really damn well. Do the same thing 1,000 times, you’ll end up doing one bad thing...
View ArticleNuanced Regret
When Steve Jobs was alive I couldn’t imagine working at Apple with him there. With Steve Jobs no longer alive, I couldn’t imagine working at Apple without him there.
View ArticleManipulating Information
It’s hard to manipulate someone when they have as much or more information than you do. The post Manipulating Information appeared first on Justin Lloyd.
View ArticleLife’s Cluttered
“I know my wife’s clutter has gotten too much for me when I start investigating different models of incinerators.” There are great articles all over the internet, and even quite a few books published,...
View ArticleWrong Message
I found myself zipping down the freeway yesterday morning en route to meet with a client, thinking about an upcoming house move, when I pulled in behind a huge house moving van. Nothing unusual about...
View ArticleGuilty of Creative Masturbation?
Are you guilty of that? We’re all guilty of creative masturbation at times, but some people manage to take it to the extreme and do it almost consistently in every activity. Uh. Okay. Lets back up a...
View ArticleWhy You Are Unable To Find Great Talent
I receive a lot of email from recruiters because I keep refreshing my resume on a monthly basis. Whether I am looking for a contract position or nothing at all, it never hurts to have exposure and...
View ArticleNot All Sugars Are The Same
I’ve been saying this for years, based on even the most cursory reading of the literature that is out there, that not all sugars are processed by the body in the same way. Fructose and glucose, even...
View ArticleJobs Requirements: Hire For Attitude, Train For Skill
Yesterday I posted about people who are trying to hire great talent inverting their list of requirements, and inevitably a friend responded with “Yeah that’s fine, but what would you look for in a new...
View ArticleFailure To Do vs Failure To Attempt
Failure is life’s way of letting us know we are doing something.
View ArticleDefinition of Wealthy
Do not let people define who you are by the number on a balance sheet or the amount of money you have in your wallet. And you shouldn’t let it define you either.
View Article“Not A Culture Fit”
For the same reason you won’t tell me why I didn’t get the job, I won’t tell you why I turned down your offer. It doesn’t do either one of us any favours.
View ArticleWe’re Not Poor, We Have “Cash Flow Issues”
Being poor and having no money are two entirely different things.
View ArticleFailure To Lunch Re: Ducks!
I don’t want you to fail at that. I don’t even expect you to fail at it. I expect that you will just give up. That is the point not at which you failed to do the thing you set out to do but the point...
View ArticleFishing For Condescension
Could you fish for yourself a little while? I’m tired of fishing for you. I’ve shown you how to fish. I’ve shown you every trick I know on how to catch fish. But still, you sit there idly and wait for...
View ArticlePersonal Development Marketing Slogans
The secret to getting started? Just do it. It’s not just something you read on an advertising billboard.
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